stripe's job page btw

Grok is pulling data from websites that anyone can go on… oh the horror

If people thought Grok doing a lookup on Spokeo and Yellowpages was bad just wait until they see that Judge Wang ordered OpenAI to deliver 20 million user chat logs to random people

here is a hint (they have a long way to go)

Maybe not NFT but looks like it does get tokenized, so in effect, opinions expressed ("I think X will happen, and have conviction of the opinion at Y price") on their platform are tokenized. This might be an NFT or it might just be a fungible token for everyone that shares that opinion, idk.

Cars should be self-driving and in constant telecommunications with cars in proximity. Vehicles should be aware of intents before mechanical observations are made and able to respond as fast they receive those signals.

I remember it like it was... Dec 3 2025....

Aside from payment companies moving to blockchains for faster/cheaper settlement, and onchain MMs already quoting prices tighter than CEXs... permissioned money systems keeps getting weaponized against ordinary people... so people keep seeking permissionless money systems (blockchain nonsense)

Not everything will be AI or blockchain, but a lot of production will happen via agentic AI that is integrated in significant cognitive areas, and anything remotely in the frontier of financial technology is being built on blockchains. (even expo's 2025 app of the year is a neobank built onchain)

Anthropic acquires Bun AI is vertically integrating into developer tooling www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Stripe just spent an hour talking one of the things crypto is good for www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FsG...

I wonder if @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is going to address the OCP 2.0 corruption toward the crypto industry (which directly led to job loss) found in the House Financial Services Cmte report financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...

seize the means of production unless the production is an emergent property of next token prediction

I just had a firsthand Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Normally when I read the Atlantic I’m like “hmm interesting, so that’s how that works.” I just read this and it hit me… “wait, literally 0% of this is how it works, there’s no indication of a mechanistic understanding of bitcoin here at all”

someone should tell stripe, shopify, cloudflare, paypal, revolut, firserv, klarna, and the asymmetrical amount of companies building on crypto that the main use of crypto is crimes and not whatever their customer base is

I think a lot "AI is going to end up like blockchain" discourse stems from people who last looked at blockchains a decade ago and haven't caught up with how they've increased the aggregate quality of global capital efficiency, market structure, and trade execution

Stripe is using this blockchain bullshit this year to reduce the time it takes to send millions in treasuries by days (the slowest part of the two hours was the USD wire transfer)

But if the people saying that blockchains are slow are wrong, what does that mean about LLMs? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqKF...

They were right (and the biggest bottlenecks now are the offchain transfers)

gm to the idiots who were right

remember? it still is everything from onchain program deployments to volume to etf/dat AUM to adoption by institutions is growing...

Just like the AI bubble (there isn't one), there was no Tulip bubble either. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ther...

gm blockchain believers

My prediction is that entry level grads fresh out of school that are singularly focused on using AI to amplify their output will be more employable than mid tier workers with 5-10 years of experience that haven’t adjusted and they will take the jobs of those in the belly of the seniority curve

DMCA protections to legally enforce DRM is what makes printers that could other wise use whatever ink and multicast dns protocols suck… crazy what downstream effect regulatory capture can have on making things unfixable

Cash App just announced they're building on stablecoins... banking rails is moving to blockchain

bsky has discovered choose rich nick 😂

Coinbase also reincorporating to Texas. I remember someone telling my no company would follow Tesla in doing this after the activist judge denied Musk's pay package. Instead, we're seeing S&P 500 companies doing it.

blockchains are still the future of banking and now that banking regulators are allowing its usage anything else will be like coming up with the fastest horse for transit just as the automobile bursts onto the scene. hence, every major bank adding crypto rails and stripe building its own blockchain

I was in going into high school when the Bitcoin white paper came out so before that I was into skateboarding and halo 3

People forget that the reason crypto transactions tend to be consensus voted in data centers is because ISPs will literally throttle your residential connection after a terabyte of egress. If you care about the network IBRLing you need DC decentralization with private fiber and direct data routing.

internet capital markets

I do think other countries should start competing with the US on tech. Not for political reasons, but just to be accelerating tech globally. Every country should be able to build and deploy their own satellites etc. Even Eutelsat satellites have been made and launched from the US. euacc.com

TikTok and YouTube data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out

My brain when tech bros talk about “blockchain”:

There is some truth to the oversimplification of "just a spreadsheet", it's replicas of data propagated to a bunch of machines on the internet. However, if you want an actually autistic overview of what goes into a modern blockchain, recommended reading: www.helius.dev/blog/solana-...

It's October 2022 Bitcoin crashes below $16k It's October 2025 Bitcoin crashes below $100k

I’m genuinely curious if @chrismurphyct.bsky.social found the Biden admin approach to crypto acceptable. Courts were routinely dismissing those lawsuits as arbitrary and capricious. The bipartisan support to nullify SAB-121 was vetoed. What would my state representative do differently?

People saying this simply don’t understand the mathematics of backpropagation

Is the stock market crash in the room with us right now?

“Time” is always the answer pundits and academics give as to why the collapse they predicted hasn’t happened yet. Every year for the past 25 years there has been warning of a bubble popping. They were wrong 23 times. Recall last year 16 Nobel prize economist said the economy should be plunging.

Sept CPI came in lower than expected: CPI YoY: 3.0% vs 3.1% exp. (And non-cpi inflation reports are even lower) SPY YoY: +16.06% DJI YoY: +9.07% BTC YoY: +60.10% GOLD YoY: +51.99% Credit card delinquency YoY: Down 3.37% Remember all those expert economists telling us this year would be bad?

after years of people telling me it's all hype and going to 0 people finally admitting the crypto bros are doing well

a lot of blockchain infrastructure runs on redundant thousands of bare metal servers all over the globe making it antifragile to things like aws downtime

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

idk if i just went to like a bottom quintile middle school but we def had this class search operators, verifying sources, verifying citations on wikipedia, then making powerpoints of how we search like "here i used the query `("Milton Hershey" | "Hershey School") site:wikipedia.org`"

TradFi loves this narrative because it enables them to continue being entrenched middlemen that skim 290 bips off txns, vendor-lock you to their proprietary systems, and act as permissioned finance gateways. They also know that won’t last forever, so they’re tokenizing and building L1s (Stripe)

This is because media companies spend quite literally the past 50 years convincing individuals that copyright as it is today is a neutral moral law of the world in which you have to play, and not a very recent development.

“I don’t care about at-proto; I’m just here because I don’t like Musk and wanted Twitter 2.0. You must do what I say, or I’ll leave.”

Poetry